“…Biological weapons have a long and sordid history – from catapulting infected corpses to dropping bombs of plague-infected fleas.
But what if a biological weapon were being developed and studied by scientists that had the potential to kill not a battalion or a city – but 150 million people?
According to some public health and defense officials – that is exactly what we’re facing – following the cultivation of a highly contagious form of H5N1 — a lethal bug better known as bird flu.
The contagion they fear could escape the lab – or its recipe could land in the wrong hands.
This work being done in labs in Wisconsin and the Netherlands could also be carried out by nature itself – experts point out.
And a super flu is just one of a growing list of potential pandemics that could develop in the near future-
- either as a result of terrorism – of superbugs leaping from animals to humans – or both…”
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Bioterrorism Funding Withers As Death Germs Thrive In Labs, Nature.
